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I will revisit these things once I become better at drawing and surely finish them off. However today I managed to finish something :o

15/06/2012

Decided to draw a woman today because everything has been dominated by males so far. I think my inexperience with drawing them shone a little with this piece though it also felt like every little thing that looks wrong just makes them look masculine. Gotta be careful when drawing them.

This is the base:

More hips and less shoulders is obvious. But I left it as it is because I was adding some shoulder armour things later.

Finished (somewhat):

I went with my own interpretation of a skill cape. It's hard to make armour look like armour right of the bat but I reckon as colour comes into play sometime in the future I will be able to solve that one problem. I really wanted to colour this so I could make the cape a bit more obvious but I have no idea how to do that in Photoshop.

Tutorials I need to look at:

Hands

Feet

Colouring

I would add 'how to make clothing look natural' up there but I think I should practice that by drawing irl.

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Face is very masculine - I know I have problems with drawing females as well.

Try drawing the feet in 3-d to begin, like little boxes (more like little aquariums :P) and position them where your feet would attach from the calves. (that kind of makes no sense.. I'll post a pic of what I mean later) This helps me to get the perspective on the feet right and has helped a lot.

Putting stuff in the hands helps with drawing them because you can easily look at your own hand in that pose (or close to) and draw it from life.

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That's how I normally start out. Tried to show you how I do hands but it wasn't all that helpful. Hopefully the feet help though.

I actually went with the new Bandos graphical rework. I never noticed it before and it is actually much better to draw than the older Bandos armour. I tried to not make it look so flat and stuck onto the body which failed at some places. A definite improvement I'd say.

Photoshop is a pain in the arse so today I download something called Paint SAI which produces the most fantastic lineart I've seen ever. I opened up the previously drawn image and decided to revamp it.

The images are quite large so I'll use a hide tag and minimal narration.

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The base:

The sketch:

The lineart:

The colour:

The shade:

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Creating lineart in Paint SAI is epic. I have to show this again:

It's a shame the colouring isn't up to par though! If it wasn't 2:40am I'd look up some tutorial. His facial expression makes him look mad.

Just ended up sketching some more today rather than colouring. Trying to explore angles and perspective because full on frontals are boring and not very production.

Quite a couple of pics so hide tags are necessary.

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Le girl body:

Le girl sketch:

Woman running:

Shepherd-commander:

Dude standing:

James Vega!:

Woman shooting:

Woman shooting sketch:

Guy sitting:

Guy sitting sketch:

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Not great but I'm learning. I don't really remember what the armors from Mass Effect look like but it was something like that. It goes a little iffy when it comes to sketching mainly because I'm thinking 'What the hell should I draw that's not Runescape?!'. I run out of imagination at that stage. Then I think to myself, 'let's draw Runescape stuff that is not Bandos armor' and that's a huge fail because just what is going on with the new armor? But now that I'm writing about it with my tablet packed away, I have tons of ideas hitting me in the face. Why Brain, why??? I guess I'll write down what I'm thinking of now and open up the list tomorrow.

What is lamus maximus is that I forgot to colour his eyes, colours his eyebrows, do his other arm and his nails. I can't really get my tablet out now so I'll have to finish it off later (famous last words). I'm not really getting the hang of face shading buh-buh-buh-but practice will make perfect. I am sort of getting the hang of it. Hopefully I can draw the sailing of the moons tomorrow but I did just check out a pretty good book from the library.

Super-duper humongous post! I feel like I'm finally making some progress. I know how to rid of black lines now and let me say, it makes quite a difference.

Hidetags because I have a bunch of images.

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The body:

The sketch:

The lineart:

The colour:

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To round this image dump up nicely.

The shading with lines visible:

The shading without lines visible:

Yeah she's supposed to be doing that bow-legged pose all teenage girls do when they cutely pose for a picture. I ended doing the lineart very thick by accident, I was zoomed in and didn't realise how it looked by the time I zoomed back out. That's what prompted me to remove it. It does make a nice difference and I think I'll be doing this in the future, eventhough I took out too much time of my life.

If anyone can tell, I've been practicing hands like I said I would. Only I don't have the evidence to back that up...

Edited July 17, 2012 by Star.Saving space ftw!

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This... killed my hand. The scale of it got too big and I became too impatient to draw a background or surroundings. I also kept the time because I knew I worked on these for many hours but wasn't sure of the exact amount. This one took considerably longer due to having more than one character in it.

The Body

Yep, warrior, mage and ranger. I usually draw the warrior so I decided to branch out a little.

The Sketch

I moved the mager a bit to the right. They're all wearing the newer armours (which I'm still not used to!) This, along with the body pre-sketch took a total of 1 hour 30 mins. Blimey!! The mager is wearing ahrims, the ranger is wearing dragonhide and the warrior is wearing bandos.

The Lineart

This took... 2 hours and 10 mins. I forgot to take a screenshot pre-colouring of the lines so they aren't black.

The Colour

I didn't time the colouring and shading individually. I pretty much pulled the colours out of actual RuneScape images. It's best to use the originals. Doing the ranger's dragonhide was a bit tricky because this was my first time ever drawing that. The mage's clothes were just layers of clothes which was easy but a bit hard to represent from that angle.

The Shade

...8 hours 50 minutes to colour and shade! And then 1 hour to colour the black lineart. At the end I got sloppy because I wanted it to be over and done with. That's a total of 13 hours 30 minutes. I did not realise this was so time consuming.

The scales were rather hard to draw individually so I drew one line and copy-pasted it continuously. It's not perfect:

There's a wee bit of touching up to be done which will take another hour or two. If I link to the full sized image, you'd be able to zoom in at the edges where the colouring is not complete.

From afar it looks alright:

But zoomed in:

However that's a task for a rainy day.

I'm pleased with the outcome and instead of taking up big projects like this again, I'd much rather focus on improving problem areas. My hands are good now, the feet need a tiny bit of work and faces definitely need a lot of work.

Oh, one more thing. I was experimenting with easier ways to shade at some point. At certain sections of the image you can see areas where I've airbrushed instead of colouring, then using the water tool to merge colours. Airbrushing is certainly easier but it gave it the 'embossed' feel (see mager's staff).

I can finally take a break now.

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Awesome work, especially your most recent piece, I can empathise with you regarding how graphics is so time consuming. As you said, the faces could do with looking more realistic to give it a more 'serious' look.

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Eek, I guess I should change the title to once-in-six-months art dump. The program I liked to use ran out of free trial so I've been laying off the tablet. However quite recently I have picked up my sketchbook and pen so I think it'll be nice to start this up again.

@Rammernawt: Thank you :)

6th January

There are no progression pictures for this piece seen as though it has been complete for a few days now. I've had a little sketchbook hanging around for a few years now and I've decided to finally use it.

I first drew this in pencil then traced over using a 0.1 fine drawing pen:

Bigger image here:

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Quite obviously this is meant to depict two different lives. I used reference pictures for the birds I think, I've never draw one before. I didn't know what to fill the white space up with though but I'm sure I will one day revisit this and add more as inspiration comes.

EDIT: For the purpose of not double posting, new update goes here.

10th January

Another pen drawing in my little book. This quite accurately shows how I feel when drawing sometimes, you have many thoughts in your head and are influenced by many things but you just can't draw it.

I would never have gotten those hands right had I not drawn with a pencil first. Looking at this now there are many things I wished to have done differently such as added more things in that thought bubble and fill up the white space more.